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If it's damaged in a trial it's much easier to bleed the old type as you can pressurise the system by fitting a different cap ?

Hi most trials in the north east centre now have a conducted course including this Sundays seaton delaval trial near Rothbury. I'm just waiting for the club to provide a postcode and I'll add it to the entry in the trialscentral calendar

Yes Oni I get all that. The point I'm trying to get across is based on my experience of fitting a pack measured at 9.9mm with a digital Vernier. This should not have been a light clutch, I understand what you are saying. The fact it did means to me that how hard you compress the plates using the Vernier will make a difference to the measurement. In addition when the thickness is this critical measuring a pack soaked in oil probably makes some difference when its squashed, ie it may compress .05mm more as you drive the surface oil out. I used a combination of used plates to get to 9.9mm. A new dry clutch pack may not compress as far using a Vernier ? The DP pack my friend bought measured at 10mm when removed from the box, this is sold as ready to fit, presumably as its expected to bed in by 0.15mm relatively quickly ? To get back to the original question just go an burn the clutch up some 4th gear hills, if it doesn't work you've still had more fun than trying to sand a fibre plate

A diaphragm clutch doesnt have 6 springs, it has a single beville spring. The spring was changed, I think in 2006, for a lighter one. Fitting the later one will help with the clutch feeling heavy. I agree with Billy on the measurement when not under compression. I did a friends recently at 9.9 just by hand, the clutch is very light but doesn't slip.

Hi Chewy how are you? This will start another panto session of opinions BUT In my experience including SSDT, Tre Giorni Valtellina, Santigosa etc etc the clutch works best with dexron 3 ATF. It's cheap as chips but that's not why I use it. All of my Pro bikes have continually started on the third kick hot or cold. No idea why but I can live with it. I've now got a TRS RR by the way, very good. Cheers

I think first model 349s did and 248s. Nothing new under the sun...

23 years after his first win takes some believing

Pipeline in Kinlochleven, bit of a walk or Ben Nevis

So who will win the six days? Dougie must be favourite but I'd love to see Michael Brown win having been second so many times. Jack Price has ridden before on a 125 but should do much better on a 300. What do people think ?

How about fitting higher bars? I think Jitsie make some

No he means the opening world championship round Andrew that's why it's posted in the SSDT forum ???. To be fair you were the only clean on my section on Sunday

Had my RR since Feb. So far I've bought a spare air filter....

Ouch. Can you remember the location? I'll be starting the santigosa 3 day on good Fri. From the pavement outside the sports hall along the road turn right up the street across the main road and into the hills. The police are there and stop any traffic when a bike approaches. My bikes taxed and insured but it's not a requirement. Youth classes take part. I had hoped we could do something similar in the UK at more rural trials under the legislation. Maybe not...

Legally can you be stopped from putting a bike in the back of a car ? Good way to get round van speed limits and should also be cheaper on ferries and the tunnel?

Entries for this event opened at midnight on the 31st March. By last night I understand 145 entries had been received with the club limited to 200. So if you want to ride this event you had better be quick. Website is Alwinton2 day.co.uk

I have used 80ml to five litres for years on various bikes. I have done the same with my TRS as I tend to ride longer single lap events. I tried 60ml to five litre recently and couldn't say I noticed any difference. Linkages and head bearings have been stripped once, they had been greased properly at the factory. Mines a 280 RR, very happy with it

Breagh there was a serious post from a schoolboy dad on here a few years ago, they lived on the Isle of Wight. He thought it was completely out of order to drive as far as Yorkshire for a British Champ round ???. Even when the north east of England centre stage a British champ round there's still an awful lot of the UK North of that trial

I'm by no means the best mechanic in the world but fitting a rim tape isn't that hard. Once it's in properly it last for years. I've ran tubes before in a split tyre, fitted a patch to the inside wall. It's ok short term but if you get a puncture you are out of the trial unless you can get back to the van and generate enough pressure to fit another one. It can also damage the rim at the valve hole when the tube slips.

So what happens when the bike is upside down?

This thread has gone seriously off topic, I certainly haven't helped. ?However unless you are a landowner, and your land can hold a trial, and you can convince various authorities that you are correct its not really your opinion or mine that matters is it ?

Quite happy to go with that as a solution if I could get it to work. A keihin has a single breather on a gg/ sherco / Trs. I drilled a second one using the casting for this purpose on the left side of the carb and connected this to the float bowl overflow. This was on my 2013 gg. My flawed logic being I didn't want a number of tanks collecting fuel. So if I connected two together I could have one tank for the original breather and the fuel would recycle from the overlow back into the bowl. I hoped the length of pipe would provude capacity to deal with the fuel. It didn't work, the carb flooded quickly. Base principle is that the breather tube has to allow air in but this means it allows fuel out of the same route when the bike is dropped. It might work if we had bigger diameter vent tubes and installed one way breathers rather than a tank?? If you simply fit a small tank to the breather you cut off the air supply and it will vacuum lock. I'll try the breather next..... Any other ideas?

How's fuel going to evaporate in the rain ?

From an environmental point of view we should all have efi or do something to prevent carbs leaking fuel. I'm not so concerned about what comes out of the exhaust. On an efi system the fuel is effectively sealed to prevent spill if a one way breather is fitted to the fuel cap. On a carb system the bike spills fuel when it gets passed a certain angle of lean in any direction. Keihin / Mikuni much worse than dellorto in this respect.

No issues with transmission. To be fair I've only ridden the bike three times. The shift feels more like a sherco than a gas gas pro.

Ross it's probably about 50% as heavy as my SWM was after I took two of the six springs out of the swm. With only four springs fitted the swm did slip in 5th and 6th. The TRS is almost the same weight as my Gas Gas and lighter than a Beta in my experience. My TRS is a 280 RR, doesn't slip doesn't drag.